johnny_yuma
Panther Quick And Leather Tough
join:2004-04-27
San Jose, CA
| Wreck photos put freelancer in hot water
»www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hea···021.html
I don't know if this has been posted here,if so please excuse the duplicate.
As a prize-winning freelance photographer who has shot numerous accidents and fires for the local fire department, Elmer Cavender likes to work close to the action.
On Jan. 19, when Cavender's portable radio scanner alerted him to a major accident just east of town, he quickly rolled to the scene in his old gray Buick.
But this one would soon prove different from the hundreds of other wrecks and fires that Cavender has covered over the past decade.
It would lead to the loss of his film and negatives and a felony charge, making him the reluctant subject of a First Amendment debate.
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Bob Vance, VR
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join:2002-05-28
Mukilteo, WA
clubs: | Yikes... I have to ask how he hindered the response though? It doesn't seem like there was anything that could have been done, and it said he left as everyone else showed up... |
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GlobalMind
Domino Dude, POWER Systems Guy
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join:2001-10-29
Hollywood, FL
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Yea this isn't a terribly good precedent to set.
It looks to me that everyone is just upset because of who was involved. It is emotional and that is why it is being made into such an issue.
I would tend to agree the case against him is flawed.
K.
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avantare
Go Tribe
join:2000-02-16
Farmington, MI | reply to johnny_yuma
If I were him and was asked to surrender the photos and negatives I would have told them not without a subpoena. And now they are violating his First Amendment rights as well.
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leXicon5
Pelosi, SHUT YOUR Fing Pie Hole
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join:2000-12-27
Saint Louis, MO
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said by GlobalMind  :It looks to me that everyone is just upset because of who was involved. It is emotional and that is why it is being made into such an issue. An because everybody has "principals", nobody will give in and say "we rushed to judgement, sorry". Instead, just dig their heels in deeper and yank against the bits even harder. They can't....that would be admitting someone was wrong and open the door for lawsuits.
Not sure how I feel about selling the pics and showing them around to others. I'm sure with the face of the victim unobscured...
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DreamWraith
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join:2004-04-07
Mount Vernon, WA | reply to johnny_yuma
I try to avoid the feeling that we grow closer and closer to a police state every day. It is so hard to avoid that feeling when I see stuff like this almost daily. |
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leXicon5
Pelosi, SHUT YOUR Fing Pie Hole
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join:2000-12-27
Saint Louis, MO
1 edit | said by DreamWraith :I try to avoid the feeling that we grow closer and closer to a police state every day. It is so hard to avoid that feeling when I see stuff like this almost daily. We're already there...Constitutional Rights are bypassed and stepped on every day. I don't always agree with the battles that the ACLU wages but where are they in these cases?
They'll bring an army to town if a Nativity scene shows up on the lawn of a public building...
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GlobalMind
Domino Dude, POWER Systems Guy
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Hollywood, FL
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said by leXicon5 :said by GlobalMind :It looks to me that everyone is just upset because of who was involved. It is emotional and that is why it is being made into such an issue. An because everybody has "principals", nobody will give in and say "we rushed to judgement, sorry". Instead, just dig their heels in deeper and yank against the bits even harder. They can't....that would be admitting someone was wrong and open the door for lawsuits. Not sure how I feel about selling the pics and showing them around to others. I'm sure with the face of the victim unobscured... Well and you think of all the photos out there in the public space by journalists etc. He's being singled out for something which IMHO isn't illegal because they just don't want those specific photos shared.
I ask how this is any different than any other photog who takes accident or other news images.
In terms of selling them, well I dunno either but we certainly see enough cases where images like those are sold/shared with no ill effects. So why go after him this time?
K.
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